All Chemicals
BP to sell Texas City refinery for $2.5bn
Added: 9 Oct 2012
London - BP is to sell its Texas City refinery and part of its retail and logistics network in the …
Government consults industry over energy costs
Added: 9 Oct 2012
London – The Government has launched a consultation over its proposed £250 million Energy Intensive…
Euro11bn REACH burdens EU chemical makers
Added: 5 Oct 2012
London – European chemical manufacturers group Cefic has posted an uncertain outlook for the sector…
BASF, CSM forming bio-chemical JV
Added: 5 Oct 2012
Ludwigshafen, Germany - BASF and Purac, part of CSM, are establishing a joint venture. called Succi…
Public backing for chemicals industry
Added: 3 Oct 2012
London – A recent survey of public opinion shows that the chemical industry in the UK enjoys a surp…
Bayer CropScience to invest Euro7bn
Added: 20 Sep 2012
Monheim, Germany - Bayer CropScience (BCS) has unveiled plans to invest Euro7 billion between 2011 …
Nano-velcro measures toxic metals in fluids
Added: 11 Sep 2012
Researchers have developed a method of measuring water-born toxic chemicals using a strip of glass …
Shell taps Foster Wheeler for Qatar MEG project
Added: 9 Sep 2012
Zug, Switzerland - Shell Global Solutions International BV has awarded Foster Wheeler the contract …
Getting on with wireless
Added: 6 Sep 2012
London – Even the more optimistic among proponents of convergence between WirelessHart and ISA100.1…
Big tanks go for advanced level sensing
Added: 4 Sep 2012
London – ?Tank-fill level can be a relatively straightforward parameter to monitor, but level senso…
Cobalt catalyst advances water splitting process
Added: 28 Aug 2012
Researchers at Cambridge University have produced hydrogen, H2, from water using a catalyst under i…
Glass could improve disposal of nuclear waste
Added: 23 Aug 2012
A method of storing nuclear waste normally used only for High Level Waste (HLW), could provide a be…
Nanosensor array detects harmful substances
Added: 22 Aug 2012
The University of California has enabled a US company to develop a novel sensor that can detect sma…
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes in biotech advance
Added: 20 Aug 2012
London – BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have signed an agreement to develop technologies to produce ac…
Waiting for a single wireless standard
Added: 17 Aug 2012
?Imagine you have just powered up a brand new smartphone, say the popular Samsung Galaxy, only to f…
EU chemicals industry taps the brakes
Added: 13 Aug 2012
Brussels - EU chemicals production fell 2.1% in the first five months of 2012 compared with the sam…
Microbes convert energy to pure methane
Added: 10 Aug 2012
Microbes that convert electricity into methane gas have been discovered by scientists from Stanford…
ABB launches hazardous-area wireless devices
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London – ABB has launched a wireless mesh router and wireless bridge for hazardous field automation…
Major UK investments unveiled at Olympics summit
Added: 7 Aug 2012
London – Global oil & gas and petrochemicals companies are to announce plans for major investments …
Lotte Chemical advances Wilton PET project
Added: 7 Aug 2012
Wilton, UK - Lotte Chemical UK Ltd (LCUK) has progressed its project to expand PET (polyethylene te…
